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Translation, Gender, Sexuality: a report from Genealogies of Knowledge 2017

   Conferences
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   As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am keen to contribute to
   research on how social factors impact language use, particularly gender
   and sexuality. As a second-generation Polish immigrant, raised with
   influence from both Polish and English culture, I am also very
   interested in the effect cultural background can have on the production
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   likely to acquire native speaker-like linguistic variation. However,
   previous studies have not considered how other social factors such as
   sexuality might affect which features are acquired. This is despite
   previous studies having shown certain linguistic features to be
   cross-culturally associated with LGBTQ+ membership. These features
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   I want to help fill this gap in the research by investigating how
   sexuality might affect the linguistic variants acquired in English by
   second language speakers (specifically, Polish migrants to England). I
   will examine whether the use of these features differs depending on two
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   This was the project I had in mind as I headed to Manchester for the
   conference. I was rewarded by an excellent thematic session on
   ‘Translation, Gender, Sexuality’.

   I found Przemysław Uściński and Agnieszka Pantuchowicz’s presentations
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   Barrett, R. (2017) From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender,
   and Gay Male Subcultures (Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality)
   Oxford: Oxford University Press

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   Development, 7, 379-392

   Uściński, P. (2017) ‘Thinking Sexuality/Translating Politics: Queerness
   in(to) Polish’ Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and
   Scientific Thought across Time and Space, Manchester: University of
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   Zimman, L. (2013) ‘Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of
   gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men’
   Journal of Language & Sexuality 2 (1): 1-39
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   Seth and Iona present a joint paper with LDNA data at Genealogies of
   Knowledge. Photos (c) Japp Verheul.
   Translation, Gender, Sexuality: a report from Genealogies of Knowledge
   2017
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